DRI issues

[Bob Raymond]

dep wrote:
> begin  Bob Raymond's  quote:
> 
> | Trying to get DRI working for my Radeon 8500 (yes, I know the
> | drivers are beta, but my current X version is 4.2.99.2 - got to
> | love the default large, translucent, red cursor with a huge drop
> | shadow).  But here's the problem:  The only kernel I've found that
> | really likes my new motherboard is 2.5.44-ac2.  The DRI drivers
> | apparently only like kernel 2.4.19 when I try to compile new DRM
> | stuff from dri.sourceforge.net, ATI-Gatos, and XFree CVS. 
> 
> first -- that red cursor *is* cool -- so is the red i-beam. second, 
> you might want to drop a note about this to alan. third -- are you 
> getting the drivers as source? are there equivalent drivers in the 
> kernel source? (i used to have to juggle these when trying to get dri 
> to work with my matrox card two years or so ago. there was one point 
> where the only way i could make it all work was to compile the dri 
> stuff and g-400.o [i think that was its name] actually *into* the 
> kernel. not as modules. ended up with the fastest gl rendering i've 
> seen before or since. so you might want to do a little 
> experimentation in this regard.)

I've tried DRM both in the kernel and modules, no luck.  I've also 
gotten CVS source snapshots of the DRI r200 tree, and no luck there 
either.  I could try CVS'ing the r200 branch of the DRI xc tree, but 
that looks to be an extremely long download over 28.8k.  When you say 
Alan, you mean Alan Cox, right?  He helped me fix a sound issue long 
ago, maybe he'll know what to do here.  Do you suggest a post to LKML 
with a cc to Alan, or just direct?

> second -- when you do get it working, reward yourself with the very 
> latest version of xscreensaver; the gl stuff in them now will knock 
> your socks off. an order of magnitude more elaborate than anything 
> there before. i still think there's money in getting big plasma 
> displays and putting embedded linux and xscreensavers in 'em and 
> selling 'em as dynamic wall art.

Yeah, I tried a few fancy screensavers when I was trying the demo for 
XiG's server.  I can't remember the name of the one I liked the best, 
but it sort of reminded me of some visuals in 3DMark 2001SE.

I really hope EPoX releases a BIOS update or something for this board 
soon, though, because it's absolutely full of USB issues- I've now got 
keyboard + mouse running off PS/2 adapters, and I've run into countless 
issues on all OS's except - you guessed it- Windows, where at least 
there are easy to work with drivers to help me out.



				Bob Raymond